Medical surgical nursing / Mugdha Tripathi.

Nursing diagnosis -- Hospital, hygiene-patient and environment -- Health care system and health management -- Critical care unit and nursing -- Caring of cardiac patient -- Mental health and stigma in psychiatric nursing -- Respiratory system and disorders.

"Medical-surgical nursing is a nursing specialty area concerned with the care of adult patients in a broad range of setting. The academy of Medical-Surgical Nurses (AMSN) is a specialty nursing organization dedicated to nurturing medical-surgical nurses as they advance their careers. Traditionally, medical-surgical nursing was an entry-level position that most nurses viewed as a stepping stone to specialty areas. Medical-surgical nursing is the largest group of professionals in the field of nursing. Advances in medicine and nursing have resulted in medical-surgical nursing evolving into its own specialty. Nursing diagnosis is a clinical judgment about individual, family, or community responses to actual or potential health problems/life processes. Nursing diagnosis provides the basis for selection of nursing interventions to achieve outcomes for which the nurse is accountable. Hospitals may be owned by private agencies, individual or government. There are general hospitals where all kinds of services are given such as medical, surgical, pediatrics, obstetrics and other kinds of special service. Some hospitals give only one particular type of service according to sex, age and nature of illness, for example, they may be women’s, children’s and mental hospitals (Psychiatric Hospital). The book Medical-Surgical Nursing is a clear presentation of patient care, with its consistent format and narrative text, boxes, tables, graphics, and photographs. This book is built around functional health patterns, a framework used by many schools’ f nursing."--Back cover.

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